Wavre No. 2

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph 17 September 2016 by Hispalois [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wavre_SaintJean_baptistere_1602.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2022]

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia

Image Source: digital photograph 17 September 2016 by Hispalois [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wavre_SaintJean_baptistere_1602.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2022]

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design element - patterns - gadrooned

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Belgique - Wavre - Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste"

Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2010 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wavre-Saint-Jean-Baptiste-vue-d'ensemble-b.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Belgique - Wavre - Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 18 July 2010 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wavre-Saint-Jean-Baptiste_-_Nef_4x.JPG] [accessed 6 September 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal font of the church of Saint John in Wavre, Belgium, made in 1602."

Image Source: digital photograph 17 September 2016 by Hispalois [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wavre_SaintJean_baptistere_1602.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10330WAV

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean Baptiste

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Pl. de la Cure, 1300 Wavre, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 10 23 49 80

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N4, about 25 km SE of Brussels city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Malines-Bruxelles

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1602?

Century and Period: 17th century(early?),

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and his help in documenting it

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of dark limestone (?) consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a roumd moulding on the upper rim, followed down by a scotia, and with a gadeooned pattern all around the underbowl; plain cylindrical stem and round lower base with graded mouldings. Brass metal cover of moulded-dome shape, orb-and-cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.717286, 4.611456

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 43′ 2.23″ N, 4° 36′ 41.24″ E

UTM: 31U 613758 5619625

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part I", 45, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1913, pp. 314-329; r["References"]

Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916